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J. LBYOURAS. Hee1 for Boots and Shoes.

NO. 235 262. Patented Dec. 7,1880.

M K% 7 W .PEI'EHS, PHOYO-UYHGGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C.

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- J. LEYGURAS.

Heel for Boots and Shoes.

No. 235,262. Patented Dec. 7,1880.

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UNiTE-D STATES PATENT Fries.

JEAN LEYOURAS, or PARIS, FRANCE.

HEEL FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,262, dated December 7, 1880.

Application filed June 3, 1880. (No model.) Patented in England March 7, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JEAN LEYcURAs, of Paris, France, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Heels for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved heel for shoes, provided with improved means for mounting them upon the shoe, in order that increased solidity and greater rapidity of manufacture may be obtained, and whereby nails, screws, and threads are completely masked, and the said nails driven into the heel in such manner that they cannot wound the feet.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, whereby the upper of the boot or shoe is secured by nails which are driven from the outside, and whose heads are masked or concealed by an overlapping piece.

I show in the annexed drawings specimens ofa heel provided with groove or recess according to my invention.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4., and 5 show a side view of a heel having groove or indentation round its periphery; and Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 represent different modes of mountin g which can be applied to the same.

Referring to Figs. 6 and 7 the letter a indicates upper part of the envelope of the heel applied in the groove, and b is part of the vamp turned back. 0 is the lining, and d counterpart arranged like the lining. 0 indicates a brad or screw driven into the groove to secure the envelope, lining, counterpart, and the vamp upon the heel by a single instrumentality. After the brad has been inserted the vamp b is raised, so as to mask the brad, as in Fig. 7.

In Figs. 8 and 9 the vamp is not shown turned back; butalittle band, f, of leather is applied upon the bottom of the groove, and extends beyond the heel a sufficient distance, Fig. 8, so that it may be bent back above the vamp b and hide the nail c. The exterior part of this band f, having been raised, is glued upon the vamp b and smoothed down with an iron in such manner that one cannot see any break of continuity.

In Fig. 10 the band f is replaced by an exterior prolongation of the vamp 1) beyond the line in which the brad or screw is placed. This prolongation f of the vamp is pressed back to mask the attaching or mode of fixing, and is glued and ironed down, as has been de icribed above, to render the joint impercepti- To mask the heads of the nails or their equivalent the leather of the vamp is notched obliquely at the place where the nail has to be driven; and the little tongue of leather thus formed is fastened down by glue, so that it shall conceal the nail.

Fig. 12 shows the vamp thus cut or notched for the same purpose. A band of sheet-iron might be used for looking all the thicknesses of leather in the'groove, and it might be masked either by the vamp or by the envelope turned back.

Figs. 13, 14, and 15 represent a heel in which the groove is made annularly in its upper face. The envelope a, the vamp b, the counterpart c, and the lining d are drawn back and fixed in the bottom of such annular groove by the nails 0 or their equivalent. The vamp need not be turned back upon the heel to apply the nails.

Fig. 16 represents a transverse section of a heel with groove round the periphery and undercut above. All the modes of mounting indicated for heels with grooves Without undercutting are applicable in this case. The bottom of the groove is pierced at intervals, and the holes which traverse all the thickness of the rim open into the undercut portion, and the pieces can be attached together by needle-work, as well as by nails or screws. The undercutting could be filled by cork or any other filling.

Figs. 17 and 18 represent a heel, a, of which the upper part, above the groove, is boxed in with an iron plate, I), of which the edges are bent up all around the heel and descend to the bottom of the groove. The part of the iron turned up could be covered with a piece of leather, that can be fixed with a few brads or screws, whose heads are submerged in the thickness of the leather in the mannerdeseribed above. This mounting has the ad antage of permitting the taking off of the heel and of replacing it easily.

I have represented in Fig. 19 a grcoveless A last specimen is shown in Fig. 20. The groove of the heel is garnished with a leather, 0, which projects to a small extent beyond the upper part of the heel.

The mounting can be effected in nailing and screwing the envelope a under and with the heel, a, having an iron rim, which is provided leather, and in sewing on the upper edge of the with an offset forming a groove. The bottom leather, and to itsinterior thevampb, the counof the offset or groove is at about the level of terpart d, the lining e, and the first sole 8. The the upper face of the heel proper, and the verheads of the brads which fix the leather of attical part of the rim f is pierced with holes I, tachment can be hid by making the envelope to allow attachment of the leather by means l a extend beyond the leather of attachment for of stitches. The iron is attached to the hinder a convenient distance, in order that when bent part of the heel by means of feet 1) and of pins i back it may hide completely the leather of atg. The replacement of the heel will therefore tachment. It is then glued and ironed down. be easy. It sufiices to undo the envelope to In all these modes of mounting the first sole raiseit and withdraw the pins, and to push the could be bent into the groove and fixed with heel from the rear to the front, so that it will i the other leathers, or else nailed or screwed escape, leaving all the other parts in place. upon the upper face of the heel. The counter- I have represented in Figs. 21, 22, :23, 24 a part and the lining are sewed together after heel applicable to sandals. These heels have 1 they are mounted upon the heel. grooves in but one portion of their upper eir- \Vhat I claim as new is cumference to receive the vamp, which ought i In a hoot or shoe, the combination of the not to extend to the rear of the shoe. 1 heel provided with a circumferential groove Fig. 21 showsaheel-block in side view. Fig. l with the upper-leather secured at its edge in 22 shows it in transverse section. the plane of l the said groove by nails driven from the outsection being across the groove. Fig. 23 is a side thereof, and an overlapping edge or strip longitudinal section, the plane of which does of leather, arranged, as described,to be turned not cut the groove. 1) is the vamp turned back; i up over and mask the nail-heads, substantially c,the external part of the vamp bent back upon as described. the heel; d, attachment of the vamp and envelope in the groove. 6 is the first sole. fis l a brad or screw fixing the first sole 0 to the vamp above the heel and to the rear part of the envelope (1 and the first sole 0.

J EAN LEYCURAS.

Witnesses Rom. M. HOOPER, JEAN BAPTIsTE HOLLAND. 

